netdev - Re: [PATCH net v3] ethernet: ionic: Fix DMA mapping tests

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Message-ID: <20250623164416.12f60d8a@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2025 16:44:16 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Brett Creeley <bcreeley@....com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, Thomas Fourier
 <fourier.thomas@...il.com>, Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@....com>, Brett
 Creeley <brett.creeley@....com>, Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>,
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 Taehee Yoo <ap420073@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net v3] ethernet: ionic: Fix DMA mapping tests

On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 08:44:39 -0700 Brett Creeley wrote:
> I suspect you are right and this probably shouldn't be categorized as a 
> bug fix since the change only addresses a corner case that would happen 
> if the DMA mapping API(s) return 0 as a valid adddress, which wouldn't 
> cause a crash with/without this patch.

It's fine either way, so let me apply it and we can move on..